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Young Crafters Unite's current challenge is to use a hot trend.
Stamping Sisters in Christ current challenge is to use punches, dies or shapes of any kind.

 

I went with hexagons (shape and trend) and washi (trend).

I stamped Scripty Scripts from SP and Company in 4 different colors and cut out hexagons using my Lifestyle Crafts dies

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Then I used 3 coordinating colors of washi for the banners (another trend and popular shape too I guess).

 

 

 

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Thank you card

This week at The Paper Girls our challenge is for you to use rubons. I'm sure you have some somewhere in your big stash of crafty supplies! For my example I've got a little Thank You card.

The sentiment, dotted line, and flower and leaves are all rubons. Rubons that I've had for years and just finally decided to use them.

For my card I used the sketch from the July Authentique sketch challenge and the colors from their June color challenge.

I'm also entering this into Young Crafters Unite challenge to use many layers.

The tan paper is Authentique's Foundations from the Glowing line.

The orangish paper is from Authentique's Free Bird Endless line.

And the light blue is from their Gathering line.

On top of the paper I've added my rubons, then some pearls, twine, and butterflies.

Thanks for stopping by! And come play with The Paper Girls for the chance to win some crafty goodies!

Supplies:

Authentique paper from Glowing, Free Bird Endless, and Gathering

SU rubons, butterfly die, linen thread

Twinery orange twine

I-rock pearls

Congratulations - baby girl card

Today, I've got another SP & Company DT post in the form of a really fun and layered Congratulations card for a new baby girl.

To make the frame I cut 2 strips of brown cardstock at 5.5" and 2 strips at 4.25".

To make the mitered corners I laid one strip over another as shown below.

Then I drew a line from the outer corner to the inner one and then cut along the line.

You could do this with all 4 pieces but I only did the 2 long pieces (just in case they didn't quite line up. I didn't want the background showing through from behind).

I stamped all 4 pieces with the new Wooden it be Nice woodgrain set and created the frame around my card front, making sure the mitered pieces went on top of the other 2 strips.

For my background I "stamped" on some clouds on aqua cardstock. I simply used bubble wrap and white pigment ink and just blotted until I got a soft cloudy image.

 For the baby clothes I created this template and cut out three, one on plaid patterned paper (MME Dolled Up) and the others are stamped with Large Polka Dots (in pink onto red paper) and Bold Houndstooth (in yellow onto white paper).

Then I just embellished with a ruffle made by running a stitch on seam binding, a flower, and a belt for some fun girly touches. The center of the flower and the belt buckle are drawn with Sakura glaze pens for some fun and shiny texture.

 I glued down a length of twine and created clothespins out of kraft cardstock to "hang" the clothes.

 Then I added the Congratulations sentiment from Ultimate Sentiments II. 

And finally I added some decorations to the frame itself with diecut butterflies and punched flowers.

I'm also entering this into the Young Crafters Unite challenge to use many layers.

And into the Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge to use something new (my woodgrain stamp and one of the flower punches).

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

 

Supplies:

SP&Co Wooden it Be Nice and Ultimate Sentiments II stamp sets

Colorbok brown cardstock

MME Dolled Up (plaid paper)

EP Paradise Beach (red paper)

StazOn Jet Black ink

7gypsies seam binding

SU Punch Pack (small 4-petal flower)

SU Beautiful Wings butterfly die

McGill Mini Petals punch (5-petal flower)

SU Boho Blossoms punch (6-petal flower)

Studio G white ink, pink ink

SU Daffodil Delight ink

Sakura Glaze pens

Twinery Twine

Rainbows and Sunshine

It's coloring techniques week over at SP & Company stamps and today I'm going to show you one of my fave coloring techniques. It's so simple - just add the color directly to the stamp!

I used a sentiment from the Sympathy & Care set and simply colored it in with stamp markers.

Once the entire stamp is colored you'll need to huff the stamp (just breathe on it as if cleaning a DVD or your sunglasses) to re-wet it since most of the ink has probably dried by the time you're done and then stamp it.

For my card front I used paper from the EP Paradise Beach 6x6 pad. On top of that I added a smaller black cardstock panel, then 3 hand drawn and cut grey clouds, rhinestone rain, and yellow twine. Over the twine I added my sentiment banner with foam. And finally I added two more rhinestones to the banner.

Notice the silver lining on the clouds? I thought they was a nice touch with the sentiment. :)

I'm entering this into the Young Crafters Unite Challenge #11 which is to use many layers.

And into Stampin Sisters in Christ's challenge to use something new. My new item is the silver ink - I still had the plastic on it! I love this ink and wish I had used it sooner. And the patterned paper is newish too.

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Supplies:

SP&Company stamp - Sympathy & Care

EP Paradise Beach 6x6 paper

SU Basic Black cardstock

American Crafts stamp markers

I-rock gems

Twinery Twine

Glimmer Mist (on clouds) - Route 66, Black Magic, Charcoal (Chalkboard)

SU Encore Metallic ink pad